I have started my packing list for this year and would like to bring gifts of alcohol to the bars that I will be visiting. What types of alcohol are most appreciated? Rum? Scotch? Bourbon? Vodka? Are pints acceptable? Your suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Leo

You know. Of course the thoughts are appreciated, but towards the end of the week, tons of people realize they brought too much booze, don't want to pack it home, and start gifting it to the bars. More for us to drink, I say, but what bars really need is mixers. Everyone likes gin and tonics, but most forget that you need 3-4 liters of tonic to go with that liter of gin.

pizzamancer wrote:You know. Of course the thoughts are appreciated, but towards the end of the week, tons of people realize they brought too much booze, don't want to pack it home, and start gifting it to the bars. More for us to drink, I say, but what bars really need is mixers. Everyone likes gin and tonics, but most forget that you need 3-4 liters of tonic to go with that liter of gin.

Ditto! Mixers run out faster than booze. If you want to gift the DPW,which you should, Jack Daniels or Jim Beam.

"Nobody drinks wine on the playa..." is probably the most ignorent, ill-informed, and dare I say most stupid statement anyone has posted here in recent memory.

At Barbie Death Camp and Wine Bistro we go through over 25 gallons of wine (we did more than 2000 3 ounce pours last year alone) from our winery in Auburn, poured an additional four cases during the Nude Bike Ride and Pub Crawl, served countless more gallons to your typical burner beleaguered dipsomaniac, and this year will be serving both Spanish ice wine (or something like that) and over 3 gallons of home-made sangria.

We serve more wine than some wineries do during high season. In fact, from what I can tell, wine is the intoxicant of choice at TTITD. Some of you just need to get out more often.

I asked friends who run bars what they'd like us to bring and the answers are along the lines of pineapple juice, coconut milk, tomato juice - what they really need, for some reason, is mixers, not the alcohol.

We also bring cups for them to hand out. About Thursday, they've exhausted their supply of paper cups, so we give out plastic cups with carabiners on them so people can keep them for their next free drinks.

Louise and I bring wine and port for our personal consumption, putting the lie to the statement that no one drinks wine on the playa. :-> I've posted here before the photo of us drinking port poured from our crystal decanter into our crystal stemware.

phil wrote:I asked friends who run bars what they'd like us to bring and the answers are along the lines of pineapple juice, coconut milk, tomato juice - what they really need, for some reason, is mixers, not the alcohol.

We also bring cups for them to hand out. About Thursday, they've exhausted their supply of paper cups, so we give out plastic cups with carabiners on them so people can keep them for their next free drinks.

Louise and I bring wine and port for our personal consumption, putting the lie to the statement that no one drinks wine on the playa. :-> I've posted here before the photo of us drinking port poured from our crystal decanter into our crystal stemware.

Speaking of cups, I've alway encouraged visitors to my bar, to have their own cup. Id even wash it for them.

When _I_ was bartender, if you didn't have a cup and you had to use one of ours, you also had to hold the 15 pound skull bowling ball. If i saw that you set the ball down i would politely ask for the drink back. Ahh the good times.

No cup - no drink! If you ask me for a cup, be prepared for a lecture, a razzing, and you may have to perform some embarrassing act based on my mood at the moment. Then you might get a cup...might

Vodka seems to be what our bar goes through the most. We had some liquor left over last year, not much though - a few mostly empty bottles of whisky and rum, and some nasty boxed white zin. Mixers like sprite or tonic or club soda are always welcome...sweet tea was a hit last year.

I like red wine on the playa, it's my afternoon drink before I switch to vodka